It was a case of deja vouse obtaining information toward the article ' RUGS OF THE YOUNG FRANCIS BACON ' recently published in Hali Magazine issue 162 by Jean Manuel de Norohna and myself from the Donegal Carpet Factory at Killybegs Co. Donegal , Eire. As it was found that the archive there suffered the same fate as that of Wilton having been mostly destroyed upon acquisition in the mid 1980s.
The business has now been put up for sale as it seems the drastic scaling back of the Celtic Tiger economy has even reached this remote corner of Ireland. Presently the heritage centre occupies the old factory where the looms are retained. If anybody is interested in acquiring the last remaining handknotting carpet factory in Western Europe than please go to:

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